The Icon and the Iconoclasts – Louis Vuitton has tapped six renowned and creative ‘iconoclasts’, Christian Louboutin, Cindy Sherman, Frank Gehry, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Newson and Rei Kawakubo to create bags or a piece of luggage, in celebration of the label’s 160th anniversary.

“Monogram is timeless, yet with this project we wanted to celebrate it in a way that defied the conventions of ‘classic’“, says Michael Burke, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Louis Vuitton.

Christian Louboutin, the French shoe designer best known for his signature red-soled has just opened his first men’s shoe store in New York. GQ magazine recenly sat down with Christian Louboutin, just after his Meatpacking District boutique opened it’s doors for business and learned how his men’s business almost happened by accident. Highlights from Mr Louboutin’s interview are as follows [Read more…] about Christian Louboutin Talks Sole

To mark 20th anniversary of Christian Louboutin, StudioXAG were commissioned to design and produce a concept space inside Selfridges’ London store. The windows are composed from a series of 2D graphics, each image photographed especially for the project, and arranged to highlight symmetry, changing scale, repetition and kaleidoscopic motion. Check out the celebratory windows in motion along Oxford Street and Orchard Street.